{"id":7113,"date":"2010-09-17T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7113"},"modified":"2010-09-17T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T18:11:55","slug":"manager-for-dukakis-campaign-says-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-get-serious-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7113\/manager-for-dukakis-campaign-says-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-get-serious-about-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager for Dukakis Campaign Says It\u2019s Time to Get Serious About Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File Susan Estrich\u2019s column calling for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/political_commentary\/commentary_by_susan_estrich\/beyond_party \" target=\"_blank\">the ouster of all unqualified candidates from political office<\/a> in the \u201cNow, She Tells Us\u201d folder.\u00a0 Writing in a tone that betrays not only her antipathy for grassroots conservatives, but also a strong disrespect for basic moral sentiments, Estrich implies that the Constitution\u2019s qualifications for federal office aren\u2019t sufficient anymore:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the long run, a healthy democracy needs qualified and able people of every party to function effectively. The tea party movement&#8217;s failure to support candidates who meet that standard may help Democrats avert disaster, but it&#8217;s hardly a recipe for a strong political system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s time to put a \u201cstrong political system\u201d on the back burner in favor of \u201ca healthy fiscal system;\u201d especially if a strong political system translates into a fondness for complexity, nuance and compromises that maintain the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Though I doubt Estrich would have voted for the urbane, highly educated William F. Buckley for any public office, it\u2019s worth remembering that the most famous phrase he ever penned wasn\u2019t a penetrating insight into technocratic policy.\u00a0 It was a description of <em>National Review<\/em> as a conservative publication \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/223549\/our-mission-statement\/william-f-buckley-jr \" target=\"_blank\">standing athwart history, yelling STOP\u2026<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/16\/AR2010091604899.html\" target=\"_blank\">Protests from his intellectual descendants notwithstanding<\/a>, I\u2019d wager that WFB would deeply appreciate the clarity \u2013 and the seriousness \u2013 with which Tea Party-backed candidates articulate their opposition the federal leviathan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Susan Estrich\u2019s column calling for the ouster of all unqualified candidates from political office in the \u201cNow, She Tells Us\u201d folder.\u00a0 Writing in a tone that betrays not only her antipathy for grassroots conservatives, but also a strong disrespect for basic moral sentiments, Estrich implies that the Constitution\u2019s qualifications for federal office aren\u2019t sufficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1852,1077,1851,28,995,1738],"class_list":["post-7113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-michael-dukakis","tag-politics","tag-susan-estrich","tag-tea-party","tag-u-s-constitution","tag-william-f-buckley-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7115,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions\/7115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}